Inkstand



(No Model) J. S. ROSS.

INKSTAND.

No. 379,248. Patented Mar. 13, 18.88.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JASPER S. ROSS, OF GENEVA, OHIO.

INKSTAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,248, dated March 13, 1888.

Application filed July 11, 1887. Serial No. 243,963. (No model.) Patented in Canada February 25, 1886, No. 23,492.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, JASPER S. Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at Geneva, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Form of Inkstand, (for which I have obtained a patentin Canada, No. 23,492, hearing date February 25, 1886,) of which the following is aspecification.

Five desirable features inan inkstand are these: protection against accidental spilling, diminished evaporation, a good depth of ink for. the pen, maintaining the ink near to the top or mouth of the vessel into which the pen is dipped, and keeping that portion of the ink into which the pen is dipped free from sediment. herein set forth will show that it achieves in a good degree all these ends.

The inkstand consists of two vesselsthe larger (marked A, Figure 1, in the drawings) designed to hold the main supply of ink, and which will in this specification be called the reservoir, the smaller, B, Fig. 2, designed to hold the supply for immediate use, and which will be called the cup. Two orifices, a a, are formed in opposite sides of the cup at such distance above the bottom-as will allow sufficient depth for the pen. The cup has a close bottom.

The cup is set into the mouth of the reservoir, and is maintained there by a collar, is It, made of rubber, cork, or some analogous substance, which collar, surrounding the upper part of the cup, forms between the cup and the throat of the reservoir a packing impervious to ordinary fluids. If, now, the inkstand be tipped toward the end which holds the cup, ink will flow from the reservoir into the cup through the orifice in cup which is then the lower, anda corresponding quantity of air will enter the reservoir through the other orifice. When the inkstand is righted, the cup will retain a quantity of ink. When the supply of ink is low in the reservoir, and it is nec' essary to tip the inkstand far in order to replenish the cup, at stopper may be placed in the mouth of the cup during the tipping process to prevent the ink flowing on out of the cup. If desired, the cup may also be emptied into the reservoir by tipping in the opposite direction from that mentioned.

An examination of the construction- I am aware that constructions resembling this have been made. Especially is this true of the invention covered by Letters Patent granted to me, No. 308,100, dated November 18, 1884; but by reference to the drawings in that patent twoimprovements will be noted in the form herein set forth.

First. The cup, instead of having the sides 2 plain cylindrical form with the mouth in the center, is oblong in form and has the mouth formed substantially in one end. The advantage will appear when we consider that a reservoir which is large enough to hold a desirable supply of ink will need to expand below the neck, and if the mouth be formed in the center of the reservoir, then in tipping to till the cup this expansion must be filled (on one side) before ink will begin to flow into the cup. In proportion as the mouth is removed from the center toward one side such expansion is lessened on that side, and this cavity or expansion may be entirely removed by having a side of the reservoir'neck in the same vertical plane with a like width of the reservoirside, as is substantially the case in the accompanying drawings, and when the reservoir is made oblong and the mouth formed substantially in one end the ink is still more closely confined around the cup, and the cup may be filled with such limited tipping as would not require a stopper in the month of the cup, while with the same supply of ink, if the reservoir were not oblong, or had the mouth formed in the center, a stopper would be needed in the cup during the tipping.

I therefore claim- 1. In an inkstand, the combination of a reservoir, an independent inkcup depending therein, and a collar adjusting the one to the other, said cup having a close bottom, orifices formed in its sides, and having its upper portion formed with its opposite sides parallel, ervoir and an independent ink-cup depending a substantially as and for the purposes set forth. therein, and a collar adjusting the one to the 2. In an inkstand, the combination of a resother, said cup having a close bottom and havervoir and independent ink-cup depending ing orifices formed in its sides, and said resr 5 5 therein, and a collar adjusting the one to the ervoir being oblong in form and having its other, said cup being formed with a close botmouth formed in one end of said reservoir, subtom and having orifices formed in its sides, stantially as and for the purposes set forth. and said reservoir having its mouth formed i JASPER S. ROSS.

near the lateral boundary of the reservoir, sub- \Vitnesses: [o stantially as and for the purposes set forth. M. L. Ross, 3. In an inkstand, the combination of a res- G. E. Ross. 

